US 12,454,211 B2
Vehicle lamp, and control device and control method for same
Yuichi Watano, Shizuoka (JP); Yuta Maruyama, Shizuoka (JP); Yoshihiro Katsurada, Shizuoka (JP); and Takuya Kataoka, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/031,947
Filed by KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 13, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/037937
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 14, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/080425, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-173635 (JP), filed on Oct. 15, 2020; application No. 2020-179293 (JP), filed on Oct. 27, 2020; and application No. 2020-179294 (JP), filed on Oct. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0382289 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/08 (2006.01); B60Q 1/14 (2006.01); B60Q 1/34 (2006.01); F21S 41/657 (2018.01); F21S 45/70 (2018.01); F21W 102/155 (2018.01); F21W 102/165 (2018.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/08 (2013.01); B60Q 1/143 (2013.01); B60Q 1/34 (2013.01); F21S 41/657 (2018.01); F21S 45/70 (2018.01); B60R 2300/404 (2013.01); F21W 2102/155 (2018.01); F21W 2102/165 (2018.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle lamp control device comprising:
a vehicle lamp mounted on a vehicle where a lamp housing is equipped with a lamp camera that captures an image of an object existing outside the vehicle and a lamp unit of which light distribution of emitted light beams is controlled to change based on positional information of the object captured by the lamp camera,
a control unit that controls the light distribution and an illumination optical axis of the lamp unit; and
a front camera that captures an image of an object existing outside the vehicle with a higher resolution than the lamp camera, wherein
the control unit includes an object detection unit that detects an object from the image captured by the lamp camera, and a lamp control unit that controls the light distribution of the lamp unit based on the positional information of the detected object, and controls a change of the illumination optical axis in an up-down direction of the lamp unit based on a positional change of the object, and
the lamp control unit of the control unit controls the lamp unit based on positional information of the object captured by the front camera and the lamp camera.